Reply to "Peter Kovacs - Another PCNC offroad adventure"

Spoke with Peter last night. The car broke loose, without hot rod fever or any apparent driver error - it was 2:00 am, got below freezing that night and he may have hit some ice.

Once it was gone, it stayed gone - with no apparent scrubbing of speed with the brakes - again, sounds like ice.

He smacked a curb, jumped it and put the front into a steel fence post, spun it around a bit more and did in the 1/4 panel with a tree - poor tree is no longer rooted to this world. Both doors open fine, roof is straight, but there is some slight waveing showing on the passenger side 1/4 - not a good thing as that means rear 'frame' is no doubt tweeked.

Gas tank was punctured and then one of the first on-sight witnesses walks up and tosses his cig butt into a pile of leaves next to Peter's car - ARRRGH!! Luckily, no flames.

Peter was only using the lap portion of his four point belts and did smack his head into the side window pretty well. If he had been fully buckled in he probably wouldn't have made contaxct with anything.

NOTE TO THE WISE: Have four/five points? Use them - ALL the time.

He has Haggerty and a large 'agreed' value. Adjuster should visit today or tomorrow, and they have asked Peter where HE wants to take it.

My 2511 took 5-6 hours of frame straightening, front and rear, to get the chassis back in line. It came out fine and is still literally a one-finger on the wheel car at triple digit speeds, so Peters can be straightened out, too. He has a lot more panel damage than I did, however, and that is going to take some $$$$.

Mine came to $35K with a full repaint - any guesses on Peter's?

Larry